46-year drought is over as London Majors capture IBL Championship
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The London Majors have one more game to capture their first title in nearly 50 years and they will get to try in front of a home crowd.
It's a moment 11 years in the making for Cleveland Brownlee.
"It's a feeling like no other," says Brownlee.
The native of Atlanta, Georgia moved to London, Ont. in 2010 to play for the London Majors, and never left.
Now the 37-year-old Designated Hitter is an Intercounty Baseball League Champion after the Majors defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 8-4 in game five of the Dominico Cup final series in front of an electric crowd of 3,300.
"I'm the veteran on the team these guys they stood behind me and I stood with those guys and we fought from the beginning to the end," says Brownlee.
"I don't want the attention on Cleve, you know what I've been here I gave my all, but these guys here tonight, they're the ones that deserve it all,” he says.
One of the players he's talking about is Byron Reichstein.
